Russian module put into Atlantis / Summer shuttle slips to November

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RUSSIAN PAYLOAD NESTLED INTO ATLANTIS' BAY FOR LAUNCH
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A new Russian module for the International Space Station that will double
as a docking compartment and a room for science has been loaded aboard the
space shuttle Atlantis at the launch pad 39A for the scheduled May 14
blastoff.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts132/100426install/


SUMMER SHUTTLE LAUNCH POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER
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Work to replace a powerful magnet in a $1.5 billion physics experiment
bound for the International Space Station has forced NASA to move a summer
flight by the shuttle Endeavour to mid November, agency officials said
Monday, delaying the planned end of the shuttle program.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/100426delay/


MORE CHALLENGES AWAIT JAPAN'S ASTEROID MISSION
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Japan's battered Hayabusa spacecraft must steer through several
unprecedented course corrections using an improvised ion engine before
reaching Earth on June 13.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1004/26hayabusa/


PROTON LAUNCHES SATELLITE TO SERVE NORTH AMERICA
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A Proton rocket lifted off from Kazakhstan Saturday and delivered a new
communications satellite into orbit to replace two aging spacecraft
serving North America. The 18-story rocket launched at 1119 GMT (7:19 a.m.
EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/ses1/


ATLANTIS ASTRONAUTS CLIMB ABOARD FOR COUNTDOWN TEST
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Kennedy Space Center's launch control room and pad 39A were abuzz Saturday
morning as the space shuttle team and the six Atlantis astronauts
conducted a realistic countdown dress rehearsal for next month's flight.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts132/100424tcdt/


U.S. AIR FORCE'S X-37B SPACEPLANE SOARS INTO ORBIT
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An Atlas 5 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral at 7:52 p.m. EDT (2352 GMT)
Thursday to propel into orbit the U.S. military's experimental X-37B
spaceplane, the prototype for an unmanned reusable space shuttle.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av012/status.html


MINOTAUR 4 ROCKET LAUNCHES ON SUBORBITAL MISSION
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A new Minotaur launch vehicle derived from retired missile parts
successfully blasted off from the California coast Thursday, but officials
lost contact with a hypersonic glider testbed for a U.S. military
quick-response global strike system.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1004/23minotaur/


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